Monday, February 2, 2015

Quick post.

Hope everyone's weekend festivus was marvelous and filled with such joy that all those in your presence had their faces melted by the radiant euphoria released by your enjoyment of being alive...

Kinda like that dude from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"...

couldn't handle the euphoria...

As for K.A.W and myself, we traveled down to the land of our people, Union County, NC. For unto us a child was born approximately one year ago last Thursday. My nephew aka "The Dude" turned one year old and of course a party was partied in his honor.

We ate cake, ice cream, and Bud Light... not The Dude of course, he prefers white russians. Not only did he receive guests from both sides of his parent's families, he got to experience his first birthday with my extended family. Aunts, uncles, cousins, the works. You see I have quite a large family and we always meet once a month to have a proper Sunday Supper with mac n' cheese, ham, deviled eggs, and other southern delights. During such occasions we toast and celebrate the birthdays of that month. The Dude was up for his first and he was treated like a king. He was also subjected to the "birthday song" which in our family means everyone stands right in your face and points at you while singing "happy birthday to YOOOOOUUUUU!!!!"

It can be very intimidating for a young'n. However The Dude was nonplussed by the crowd and proceeded to clap and dance merrily through it all. Way to go...

Other than that we didn't do too much of anything.

I managed to get out to my previous place of employment for a mountaincycle ride. Not much had changed and it was actually pretty fun riding on my old stomping grounds. I talked to a few former co-workers and even ran into some hippies I was acquainted with out on the trails. Good times and good memories.

Sunday morning K.A.W and I got out for a little hike on some trail in Mineral Springs aka Miserable Springs, NC. The Carolina Thread Trail network and the Catawba Lands Conservancy built a nice little hiking trail amongst the yuppified, sub-urban sprawl that is slowly choking my beloved rural home.

Thank God for the folks like the CLC for saving a bit of wilderness before the developers could build 2 story homes "starting from the $260k's". It was pretty nice getting back out to what used to be my go to hiking trail. Sucks to see all the houses going up around it but thats the way of the world....

That was about it folks. Not too much radness to speak of but even if your weekend is a whirlwind of traveling and whatnot you still gotta get in some woods time...to keep your sanity ya know...